Rose Byrne delivers a powerhouse performance as a woman stretched to her limits and far beyond in IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU . It's the darkest of comedies and the most lethal of dramas wrapped in a relentless fever dream. This is not a fun night at the movies and Writer/Director Mary Bronstein isn't interested in spoon feeding you a tidy narrative. Bronstein and Byrne craft a very tough and delicate woman in Linda. She takes no shit off anyone as her life spins ever so slowl

Take everything you love about 80's action flicks, douse it in everything you loved about the original "Predator", throw in a hint of "Aliens" military action and you get WAR MACHINE , one of the purest thrill rides I've enjoyed in ages. This thing is a beast that I never saw coming. Alan Ritchson (Reacher, The History of Ungentlemanly Warfare) is a giant of a soldier. As the film opens, we meet him in the middle of Afghanistan military ops, where he and his brother (Jai Cour

It's incomprehensible that Disneyland could have built in one year. Yet that's exactly what Walt Disney and his team did, as seen in the fascinating documentary, DISNEYLAND HANDCRAFTED . The film is created solely out of rare archival footage, personal home movies and Walt's weekly TV series, documenting everything from the first bulldozer running through an orange grove to opening day in 1955. Walt Disney's labor of love overcomes seemingly impossible odds to hit the opening

We are a long way from Emily Bronte's classic in Emerald Fennell's new adaption of WUTHERING HEIGHTS . Wild, sexy, funny, tragic and sometimes just bonkers, Fennell's screenplay infuses Gothic romance with a whole lot of modern sensibilities. Is there some lineage between classic director madman Ken Russell and Emerald? Margot Robbie is Cathy, stunning, impatient and saddled with a decrepit homestead and an alcoholic father, Mr Earnshaw, well played by Martin Clunes (Shakespe

The Russo Brothers have plundered all my built up goodwill with their ridiculously predictable, daft new pirate movie THE BLUFF . How can a film so packed to the top of its treasure chest with action be so dull? I can't fault the two leads, who do everything they can with two underwritten roles. Priyanka Chopra Jonas (Quantico, The Matrix Resurrections) is here to kick ass as Ercell, the wife of a sea captain raising a teenage girl and boy. Their little home on a stunning tro

One of my favorite guilty pleasure films of the early 80's, CAT PEOPLE is loaded with visual style, dark sexual undertones and terrific music that could only have been born in 1982. Writer/Director Paul Schrader had just made "American Gigolo" and decided to tackle his own dark take on a b-movie classic as his next film. It would not receive the same response as his previous blockbuster hit. At least at first. Nastassia Kinski (Tess) stars as Irena, arriving in New Orleans a

A dismal, woke excuse for a documentary that inexplicably takes the side of men preying on underage kids, PREDATORS is a self-righteous mess that drowns in its own slimy, bizarre posturing. NBC's "To Catch a Predator" series on Dateline was a ratings bonanza wrapped in a cautionary tale. It was such a huge hit that host Chris Hansen became a part of the national zeitgeist. We'd all tune in every week to watch Hansen work with local police to set up stings for predators seeki

"If you ever say another word about me or make another indecent proposal, I'm gonna get that gun of mine... And I'm gonna change you from a rooster to a hen with one shot!"-Dolly Parton as Doralee Just as funny today as it was in 1980, 9 to 5 is a hilarious showcase for Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and someone named Dolly Parton making their film debut. Dolly's Oscar nominated Title Song welcomes us to montage of office life in the opening year of the eighties. Think shoulder p

Jumping on the DaVinci Code express back in 2004, Nicolas Cage delivered plenty of adventure and laughs in NATIONAL TREASURE . I had not seen it since it's opening weekend in theaters, so it was a blast to see it back on the big screen on a recent Disney cruise. Out of the gate, you KNOW this is a Jerry Bruckheimer film. The mega producer of "Top Gun", "Pirates of the Carribean" and "Bad Boys", he delivers a big budget thriller that keeps you on your toes while it hops from o

Some quiet films cast a spell. In a magical alchemy of beautiful settings, quiet thoughts and masterclass acting, they pull you into their almost silent world. MIDWINTER BREAK is a fine example, sinking us into the everyday life of a couple who have been married for a very long time. The critical, formative action and tragedy in their marriage happened a very long time ago and the two never speak about it. They have found comfort in routine, but can that last forever? Lesley